The Laws for Immigration

By sammileigh

  • The Naturalization Act

    Before becoming U.S. citizens, unidentured white males must live in the United States for two years.

  • The Naturalization Act of 1790 is revised

    Now you have to be a resident for five years

  • The Naturalization Act of 1790 is reivsed again

    The fear of immigrants caused the residency requirement to go up to 14 years

  • The Residency requirement was brought down to five years

  • The Steerage Act

    Ship captains have to give information about the immigrants to the Collector of Customs, the secretary of state, and Congress

  • The American Republic Party

    Suggested that only native-born Americans can run for office, they also tried to raise the residency requirement to 25

  • Expatriation Act of 1868

    Said "the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people."

  • The Naturalization Act of 1870

    Allows Africans to become Americans

  • The Act of 1875

    Prositutes and convicts were not allowed to enter the United States.

  • The Page Act

    Prohibits criminals, prostitutes, and Chineses contract laborers from entering the country.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    The first major laws of immigration to the U.S.

  • The Immigration Act

    New arrivals must pay $0.50 to enter, and it prevents "lunatics, idiots, and persons likely to become pulic charges"

  • The Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese immigrants were not allowed to enter the country, Once the Trans-Continental Railroad was finished, they were left without a job.

  • Scott Act

    Chinese workers cannot enter the United States once they have left.

  • The Geary Act

    Chinese laborers had to have their resident permit. If they were found without it, they had to do harder work.

  • Ellis Island opens

    About 40% of Americans are related to someone who went through Ellis Island

  • Anarchist Exclusion Act

    Anarchists. other political extremists, beggers, and epileptics were not permited to enter the country. The first time politcal beliefs kept you from the United States.

  • The Naturalization Act of 1906

    Requires immigrants to learn English before they can become citizens

  • The Immigration Act of 1907

    The list of those banned from the United States grows to imbeciles, feeble-minded people, those with physical or mental disabilities, tuberculosis victms, children who enter the country without parents, and those who committed crimes of "moral turpitude"

  • Asuatuc Barred Zone Act

    Kept those from many parts of Asia and the Pacific Islands from the U.S.. Homosexuals and alchoholics are also added to the list of people banned from the United States.A literacy standard is also set for immigrants 16 and older, they mave to read a 40-word selection in their native language.

  • The Emergency Quota Law

    The number of immigrants allowed into the United States is 350,000. Only 3% of each country's population. This law favors immigrants from Norther Europe.

  • The Married Women's Act

    Takes away the law about women who married foreigners took the citizenship of their husbands.

  • The National Origins Act

    Cuts the number of immigrants to 165,000 a year, and only 2% from each country. This did not apply to those from the western hemisphere. The U.S. Border Patrol is created

  • The National Origins Act

    Reduces the number of immigrants allowed to enter to 150,000, 2% from each country.

  • The Alien Registration Act

    Immigrants 14 and ip must register with the government and be fingerprinted. Bans individuals considered "subversives" from immigrating.

  • World War II

    Since so many men are fighting in the war, the U.S. brings in Mexican workers known as the bracero program. About 5 million Mexican workers participate in the program.

  • The Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act

    Allows 105 Chinese workers to enter the country each year.

  • The Chiense Exclusion Repeal Act

    Now covers Filipinos and Indians (repealing the Immigration Act of 1917)

  • The Displaced Persons Act

    Allows up to 200,000 refugees displaced by World War II to enter the country.

  • The Internal Security Act

    Makes any immigrants who were members of the Communist Party leave the country.

  • The Immigration and Nationality Act

    You cannot be excluded from the United States because of your race. The quota system is still in place. Immigration is limited to 1/6th of 1% of the population of each country.

  • The Immigration Act

    The nationality quotas are thrown away, but still limits the eastern hemisphere to 170,000, with 20,000 per country. The western hemisphere is allotted 120,000 without limiting each country.

  • Cuban Adjustment Act

    After being a U.S. resident for two years, they can apply for permanent residentcy.

  • Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act

    Resettles 200,000 Vietnamese ans Cambodian regufees in the United States. This was extended to Laotians in 1976.

  • Revision of the Immigration Act

    290,000 immigrants can go trough Ellis Island each year.

  • The Refugee Act

    Refugees are allowed into the country. The number of immigrants is now 270,000.

  • The Immigration and Reform Act

    Immigratns who entered before January 1, 1982 can apply for citizenship, along with fees, fines, and taxes. About 3 million immigrants gained legal status through this.

  • The Immigration Act

    700,000 imigrants can enter each year.

  • The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act

    More crimes keep immigrants from coming to the country.

  • The REAL ID Act

    States must verify a person's immigration status before giving them a license.

  • Obama pushed back the deportation of 5 million immigrants.